Armed robbery of the Florida Telco Credit Union

About 11 p.m. Wednesday, a 38-year-old man as arrested in connection to an armed robbery of the Florida Telco Credit Union in the 8100 block of Normandy Boulevard back in August. Witnesses said that on on Aug. 22 the man demanded cash and then fled into the woods. Surveillance footage was released to the media. A week later, a man said he believed the robber was one of his employees. Investigators spoke with the bank manager and a family member and identified 38-year-old Alan Dewayne Holston as the suspect. He was arrested Wednesday.Police are looking for a well-dressed suspect in an armed robbery Thursday morning at the Winn Dixie grocery store in the 11000 block of Old St. Augustine Road. An unknown masked man in a charcoal pin striped suit came in about 6:30 a.m. and demanded the money from the safe, witnesses said. After being handed $4,000, the man duct-taped the employees in the office. He fired a round from his handgun at a witness, who was not injured. No arrests have been made.
About 3:15 a.m. Thursday, shots rung out in the parking lot of The Globe Club at 11000 Beach Boulevard. An off-duty officer claimed he saw 21-year-old Lemarcus Kumar Mitchell, of Jacksonville, fire a gun into the air out of his car. Nobody was hurt. Mitchell was arrested on charges of discharging a firearm from a vehicle.

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